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What I'm trying to do is to show a page when a domain is visited but if someone tries to visit directly by ip (and not using the domain) i want to show him another page.

Classic name based apache hosting right?

Well my only question is what should i put in ServerName and/or ServerAlias?

What i've done till now is to uncomment this line:

NameVirtualHost *:80

and i've setup 2 virtual hosts like this (specific info hidden):

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/default/ ServerName {my-dedicated-ip} ErrorLog /var/www/vhosts/default/error.log CustomLog /var/www/vhosts/default/custom.log gk </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/something/httpdocs/ ServerName valid-domain.com ServerAlias *.valid-domain.com ErrorLog "| /usr/sbin/rotatelogs -l /var/www/vhosts/something/logs/error.log.%Y.%m.%d 86400" CustomLog "| /usr/sbin/rotatelogs -l /var/www/vhosts/somthing/logs/custom.log.%Y.%m.%d 86400" gk </VirtualHost>

but unfortunately it doesn't work.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Oh, and i have a single dedicated ip.

I also just found this: How can I get Apache to not respond to an IP-only request? according to which, my setup should work. It should visit the first vhost it finds. But it doesn't. It goes to the second.

EDIT: apachectl -S output:

[root@me conf.d]# apachectl -S VirtualHost configuration: wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers: *:80 is a NameVirtualHost default server domain.com (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1015) port 80 namevhost {my-dedicated-ip} (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1015) port 80 namevhost valid-domain.com (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1023) wild alias *.vaild-domain.com Syntax OK

and yes the 2 vhosts are in the same file.

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  • Are both vhosts defined in the same config file? What's the output of apachectl -S? Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 11:25

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In Apache 2.2 you designate a default virtual host with the _default_ directive which should match for both the ip-address as well as all domain names that are not explicitly defined as ServerName or ServerAlias in the subsequent VirtualHost entries.

For instance:

<VirtualHost _default_:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/default/ ServerName default </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/something/httpdocs/ ServerName valid-domain.com </VirtualHost>
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  • Finally! It's working. At first it didn't but i remember to hit a Ctrl+F5 and the other page came up. Thank you very much. I have tried that with the default but not with ServerName default.. So that was it! Another question. You say specifically for Apache 2.2. If i update to 2.4 will i need to change something? Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 11:59
  • In apache 2.4 the first VirtualHost entry is the default and IIRC the _default_ isn't a valid directive anymore, in apache 2.2 the _default_ need not be the first virtual host entry. Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 13:07

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